The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in Eighteen Volumes (190721).Volume V. The Drama to 1642, Part One.

Table of Principal Dates.

The following table is a list of the principal dates mentioned or referred to in the present volume. It should be regarded as supplemented, from their respective points of view, by the tables in Vol. IV and Vol. VI.

In the case of plays where one date precedes and another follows (in brackets) the former is the date of the first performance, and the latter that of the first extant edition. Where the former is not, even approximately, ascertainable, the date of printing precedes (in brackets).

959975 Concordia Regularis.

c. 1110 Miracle of St. Catherine.

fl. 1125 Hilarius.

112770 Guillaume Herman.

117082 London Miracles.

12th cent. Play of Adam.

c. 1250. The Harrowing of Hell. (performed in 1487.)

1258 Prohibition of secular entertainments in monasteries.

1264 Institution of Feast of Corpus Christi.

12651321 Dante.

1300 (before) Cornish Miracle Plays (MS. 15th century).

131375 Boccaccio (Decameron 1350).

c. 134050 York Mysteries (MS. 15th century).

c. 1350 Towneley Mysteries (MS. 15th century).

13901420 Chester Plays (MSS. 15911607).

1416 Coventry Plays (MS. 1468).

1427 Recovery of twelve lost plays by Plautus.

c. 1450 Macro Moralities.

1469 Edward IVs Charter to Minstrels.

14851509 Henry VII.

14851509 Hyckescorner (n.d. [before 1534]).

14851509 Interlude of Youth (n.d. [1555]).

14851509(?) The Worlde and the chylde (1522).

14861500 Henry Medwells Interlude of Nature.

1495 (before) Every-man (150930).

14945 Visits of French Players to London.

14951563 John Bale.

1497c. 1580 John Heywood.

c. 1500 L. Wagers Marie Magdalene (1566).

150556 Nicholas Udall.

150947 Henry VIII.

1515 (after) Skeltons Magnificence (n.d. [152933]).

1517 Rastells(?) The Nature of the Four Elements (1519).

1521 (or before) John Heywoods The pardoner and the frere (1533).

(c. 1530) Calisto and Melebea.

1530 Fall of Wolsey.

(1533) John Heywoods Play of the wether.

(1533) John Heywoods Play of love.

(1533/4) John Heywoods Johan Johan.

1538 Kirchmayers Pammachius.

1538 Bales Gods Promises written.

1540 Lyndsays Satyre of the thrie estaitis (1602)

(1540) Palsgraves Acolastus.

1541 Cinthios Orbecche.1543 Prohibition of songs opposed to Church teaching.

(15437) John Heywoods The foure P. P.

c. 1547 Ingelends Disobedient Child (n.d. [1560?]).

154753 Edward VI.

154750 R. Wevers Lusty Juventus (c. 1550).

1548 Bales Catalogus.

c. 1548 Bales Kynge Johan.

154069 Tom Tyler and his Wife (1661 2nd imp.).

1550 First complete edition of Halls Chronicle.

15538 Queen Mary.

1553 Respublica.

15531633 Anthony Munday.

15533 (15523?) Udalls Ralph Roister Doister (Stat. reg. 15667).

15538 Jacke Jugeler (15629).

1554(?)1606 John Lyly.

15541628 Fulke Greville.

1557 Stationers company incorporated. (Confirmed 1559.)

1557 lic. The Historie of Jacob and Esau (1568).

c. 15581625 Thomas Lodge.

155894 Thomas Kyd.

c. 1558c. 1597 George Peele.

15581603 Queen Elizabeth.

155892 Robert Greene.

1559 Political allusions in ``common interludes'' prohibited.

156077 Misogonus (MS. 1577).

1561 The Bugbears.

1562 Norton and Sackvilles Gorboduc (1565 incomplete, 1570).

c. 1563 R. B.s Apius and Virginia (1575).

15631631 Michael Drayton.

1564 Shakespeare baptised.

15641607 (or before) Henry Chettle.

c. 1564 Richard Edwardss Damon and Pithias (1571).

156493 Christopher Marlowe.

1565 Contention betweene Liberalitie and Prodigalitie (1602).

1565 Cinthios Hecatommithi.

1566 Richard Edwardss Palamon and Arcyte (1566).

1566 Gascoignes Supposes (n.d. [1566]).

1566 Gascoignes Jocasta (c. 1573).

1566 Albion Knight.

15667 Painters Palace of Pleasure.

1567 Pickeryngs Horestes (1567).

1567 Fentons Tragicall Discourses.

15671601 Thomas Nashe.

1567 Gismond of Salerne (Tancred and Gismund, 1591).

(1568) Fulwells Like wil to like.

c. 1570 Prestons Cambises (entered 1567/8).

157084 Prestons(?) Syr Clyomon and Syr Clamydes (1599).

1572 Massacre of St. Bartholomew.

1573 Legges Richardus Tertius (1579).

1575 Gascoignes The Glasse of Governement (1575).

c. 1576 Erection of the first permanent theatre.

1576 Sack of Antwerp.

1576 lic. George Petties Petite Pallace.

c. 1577 Thomas Luptons All for Money (1578).

157780 Drake circumnavigates the world.

(1578) Whetstones Promos and Cassandra.

1578 Holinsheds Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, including Harrisons Description of England.